Generally kudzu should take care of new introduced hardware else DIY the hardway or fedora-list-way.
I have two sound cards. On-board one is a 5.1 channel so it consumes all three sound ports (spk/aux/mic) for 6 channels.
So for having a mic, I had to plugin another PCI based sound card. Works well. I use Kmix.
It provides a midi port also, used for gamepad by kids.
It is a different matter that I have difficulty configuring 5.1 channels in Linux, which otherwise works well in dual boot side for kids.
On 1/5/06, John Wendel <jwendel10@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>Hello,
>Is it possible to have two sound card in a machine ?
>
>Why, you ask ? Well my motherboard has a built in one (with VIA 8237) that
>works allright. Unfortunately the it does not have a MIDI interface, which I
>need to capture MIDI from an instrument. I am thinking to get one of the
>cheapo soundcard ( < $10 ) just for the MIDI interface, so the sound from
>that card is probably not very good.
>So basically what I want is to use my current soundcard to play sound, and a
>second soundcard to capture MIDI (probably using Alsa too). Is that even
>possible? Any hints or pointer on how to configure Alsa to do something like
>that (for example if the two cards require different driver) ? Other
>suggestions are welcomed too.
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>RDB
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